Jonas Hegi spent 2 years studying at the University of the Arts in Zurich. He moved on to complete an internship at Ludovic Balland and is now interning in Den Haag at Carvalho Bernau. He is part of the motion graphic collective Les Enfants Terribles. He has some killer typography in his print portfolio. Hegi’s approach is very swiss and very inspiring to those whose tastes lean in that direction (mine have been lately).
Studio Spass is a visual communication agency based in Rotterdam. They have a growing list of clients with some sharp work for print and web. They have a strong passion for design and do what they can to keep from boxing themselves in by avoiding formulae.
Painter Barbara Wijnveld uses big dripping blocks of water color to create some striking fashion-influenced portrait paintings that look much better hanging on a wall then they come across via the web. I’d love to see them in a gallery setting.
Hoaxhoaxhoax has an interesting and varied body of design work. The animated gif alphabet is fantastic. I just sat and watched it for several minutes. It’s even more cool considering it was created using ink, subwoofer, plastic, foamboard, tape and an MP3 player.
Since 1416 was founded in 2005 by Dirk Claessens & Maarten Verweij. There is some very considered graphic design work in their collective portfolio.
Armen Mnatsakanjan is a Designer and Illustrator based in The Netherlands whom I mentioned on the site a few months back. I use his desktopography image still as my desktop now and then. He has done a small update with a few new pieces in his unusual portfolio that are worth checking out.
Just when you start to think that Flash experimentation is at a standstill someone like Cartelle comes along and just has fun with it. None of it is necessarily new but that doesn’t mean playing around with it isn’t still a really great time.
There is some interesting work for print in the portfolio of Hans Gremmen.
Its a simple idea really, put your camera on a 2 second timer and then just run as fast as you can and as far as you can.
Why you might ask? ‘Why not’, I would answer.
The unusual and brilliant Levi Van Veluw has updated his site with more of his fascinating portraits.
Alvin Chan updates with new and stunning graphic design work. He is one of the best.
Wild digital compositing from the very young and very talented 18yr old aspiring Netherlands-based Rik Oostenbroek.
There is a full portfolio of good graphic design work waiting at Ontwerpatelier.
The world’s first Graphic Design Museum has opened this week in the Netherlands. It’s one more reason I wished I lived in Europe. When I was in college my friends and I used to talk about how we hoped one day graphic design would be recognized as the art that it really is and find it’s rightful place in art history and culture. It’s good to see someone out there is starting to do so and saw fit to finally build a museum about it. It will be interesting to see just how many visitors they pull in.
Levi Van Veluw is an artist based in the Netherlands who sculpts onto living people and photographs the results. There isn’t much information about him on his website but his work is fascinating. You can also view a film of one of his sculptures in action at his site. He is currently exhibiting in locations across Europe and the states.
Bert Simons is a Netherlands-based Designer/Programmer who has created some very unusual sculptures. Using a 3d modeling program he maps portraits of people, including himself as pictured above of over a wireframe model. He then breaks the image down into a series of geometric shapes and outputs the pieces. He cuts them apart and then after what I could only imagine would be a lengthy and trying bit of time manages to glue them together to create the striking papercraft sculptures above. Yes, that’s right they are made out of paper. Ah will the wonders of technology never cease. So bizarre but utterly fascinating, if not the least little bit disturbing.
It’s been a while since I’ve been to their site, but the Sauerkids never seem to leave my creative peripheral. Sauerkids is a illustrative duo out of the Netherlands who, in the past years, have provided me with a great deal of creative inspiration. I have a lot of creative influence, in a lot of mediums but these guys are one of the few that sit on the top of that list. Yeah, they do the whole illustration thing, but they throw in this odd, underlying theme of cynical humor mixed with morbid surrealism. They’ve had a pretty good amount of press in some great publications and have exhibited their work in a handful of galleries across the globe. Their characters and compositions have no doubt, lent something to the creative industry as a whole and will reassuringly continue to do so for years to come.
